Avid Media Composer - Machttp://c2.avid.com/forums/48.aspxForum for advanced Media Composer Mac users.enCommunityServer 2008 SP2 (Build: 31106.96)convert 4k to 1080phttp://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882367.aspxWed, 22 May 2019 21:00:51 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:882367Barry Goldstein1http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882367.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=882367<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I&#39;m editing a 30 minute show on Media Composer 6.5.4 mac for 1080p 29.97 delivery.&nbsp; What&#39;s the best way to convert 4K video to 1080?&nbsp; And will time code carry over in conversion?&nbsp; Thanks.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>2018.12.2 Memory Leakshttp://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/880627.aspxSat, 30 Mar 2019 00:17:08 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:880627t3chfaith11http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/880627.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=880627<p>Sad to report I&#39;m&nbsp;running multi machines editing on OSX 10.13.6 Macpro 12 cores 16 gigs to 32 gigs of ram on a Nexis 100TB. After working for a couple of hours avid begins to get sluggish with poor performance. I can report that this has happened on 4 machines that I&#39;ve upgraded from 2018.12.1 to&nbsp;&nbsp;2018.12.2</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>side note: let&#39;s hope the next version is 2019.4? it&#39;s a new year!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>shortcut to add a SPANNED MARKER won't workhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882211.aspxFri, 17 May 2019 14:55:53 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:882211Aren Hansen3http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882211.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=882211<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I&#39;ve mapped an &#39;Add Marker&#39; shortcut to my keybaord and added the little &#39;Add Option Key&#39; to the shortcut. It doesn&#39;t work to make a spanned marker. I&#39;m still required to hold the option key. Any tips?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Aren</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>Massive Performance Hit Running MC 2018.12.5http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882127.aspxWed, 15 May 2019 15:21:02 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:882127dklein9http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882127.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=882127<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>I&#39;m seeing massive performance hits while running MC 2018.12.5 on all my Macs running 10.13.6. Models vary from 2010 Mac Pros with 16-20GB Ram, ATI 5770 Radeons, to 2013 Trashcans with 32GB ram etc. Even my iMac Pros are noticing it.</p>
<p>I&#39;m getting a lot of pinwheeling just opening bins or opening AMA footage. Under 2018.12.3 I had no issues.</p>
<p>I&#39;m also noticing that some of the AMAs from 2018.12.3 seem to be broken after the upgrade with network usernames included in the source path for AMA linked files from a NAS.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>Amira ProRes 4444 one clip won't link or importhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882296.aspxTue, 21 May 2019 10:52:38 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:882296nigelad3http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882296.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=882296<p>Hi</p>
<p>As the title says, we have one clip out of 30 or so on a volume that won&#39;t link for transcoding or import.</p>
<p>It plays fine in QT and VLC and interestingly Adobe Premier Pro will link to it. I&#39;m guessing some kind of metadata data error is the cause?</p>
<p>We have had to use Adobe Media encoder to export it using the same codec, to use it in Media Composer. However now MC doesn&#39;t apply the levels scaling or ARRI 709.aml (embedded) LUT automatically as it does with all other clips.</p>
<p>Any suggestions on what&#39;s happened here and how to get around the LUT for editorial are appreciated.</p>
<p>Nigel</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>New Titler help pleasehttp://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882359.aspxWed, 22 May 2019 18:41:09 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:882359Jason Lyons (aka. avidzombie)3http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882359.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=882359<p>Can someone please tell me how to open the new AVID Titler+ .&nbsp; I am running Mac Mojave, AVID 2018.12.3.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I have looked in the PDF manual and did not find a single entry for AVID Titler+ as found in the software menu.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Jason</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>Feature Req: More sophisticated Script Search texthttp://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882370.aspxWed, 22 May 2019 22:40:14 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:882370Doug Abel0http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882370.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=882370<p>Script search needs a way to filter results... for example to be able to search for &quot;raisin bagel&quot; but only where the script name contains &quot;fred&quot; (Fred being a person who obviously doesn&#39;t understand bagels).</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>2018.12.0 saved effects in bins not keeping keyframeshttp://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/877713.aspxThu, 17 Jan 2019 21:05:38 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:877713Fish18http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/877713.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=877713<p>I frequently use and re-use little motion effects created in the 3D tool.</p>
<p>A little creep here. A little pan there.</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s nice to be able to drop custom effect on a clip to see if a little move makes the shot work better.</p>
<p>I do it a lot. I&rsquo;ve done it for a long time.</p>
<p>But in the latest release I noticed that the custom effects I make only hold the start keyframe but not the end. Result? Not much of anything.</p>
<p>Anyone else experience this issue?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>Audio still scrubbing with CAPS LOCK offhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/881903.aspxMon, 06 May 2019 18:32:03 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:881903Mike4http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/881903.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=881903<p>Anyone else have the same issue? Just recently updated from 2018.9 and the issue was not present.</p>
<p>Tnak you</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>Mojave 10.14.4 / MC 2018.12.5 Transcode issue [Case : 03706909]http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882323.aspxTue, 21 May 2019 18:23:11 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:882323t3chfaith1http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882323.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=882323<p>Not sure anyone else is having this issue I just call this in and got a case number. </p>
<p>When we Transcode on&nbsp;Mojave 10.14.4 / MC 2018.12.5 then I open it up on a system running HighSerra 10.13.6&nbsp;&nbsp;/ MC 2018.12.5 or MC 2018.12.3 etc... it the media shows up offline, off AMA or import. Seems to be&nbsp;Mojave 10.14.4 if we take that same media on HighSerra 10.13.6 its not offline. I&#39;ve tried all methods of unistall/trashing avid temp files to start fresh still does it...</p>
<p>Nexis version 19.4.0.14</p>
<p>LET IT BE KNOWN.... <img src="http://community.avid.com/emoticons/emotion-45.gif" alt="No" /></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>Anamorphic 4K from iPhone Xhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/879794.aspxWed, 06 Mar 2019 15:40:24 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:879794Kyler9http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/879794.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=879794<p>I&#39;m shooting a short film on the iPhone X with the Moment Anamorphic lens. The squeezed footage is 23.97 / 3840x2160 (so 16x9 not 4x3 squeezed). What type of project do I do in Avid to desqueeze the footage? I&#39;m not seeing anything that matches up. Thanks anyone!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>Issues consolidating audio for Protoolshttp://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882249.aspxMon, 20 May 2019 11:25:20 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:882249dylanhowitt6http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882249.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=882249<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I&#39;m havng trouble exporting audio from a sequence to give to a sound mixer for use in Protools.</p>
<p>I&#39;m on the latest MC Ultimate on a new iMac, using imported media shot on a C300. I&#39;ve attached my export settings (also tried embedding in AAF).</p>
<p>It works fine at first but crashes everytime at &#39;Gathering AAF dependencies&#39;. When I look in the target folder the consolidated media is there but the sequence aaf file has nothing in it - eg is 0 bytes in size. Inside Avid the consolidated audio has been created in the bin.</p>
<p>Any ideas what I&#39;m doing wrong?</p>
<p>Many thanks</p>
<p>Dylan</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>Audio Drifting Out of Synchttp://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882325.aspxTue, 21 May 2019 19:16:57 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:882325goldenboy0http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882325.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=882325<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I have imported some long files (50-60 min.) and the audio starts off fine but starts to drift out of sync as the the clip goes forward. The audio becoming later and later compared to the video. &nbsp;Any idea why this would be?</p>
<p>The files are 1280x720 H.264, 23.98fps mp4s and I created a 1080p/23.976 project They were in sync when I view them on the desktop with Quicktime. One thing that I&#39;ve noted is that the files must have been converted to mp4 at some point because they all end in &quot;.mov.mp4&quot;</p>
<p>I am working on a 2017 Macbook Pro with Media Composer 2018 12.3</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>Please fix Frameflexhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882299.aspxTue, 21 May 2019 11:14:22 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:882299Roger Shufflebottom3http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882299.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=882299<p>Since David Colantuoni has announced that Avid are holding off releasing the shiny new MC version, here&rsquo;s something that needs to be fixed. Frameflex is good a dealing with horizontal images (video or graphics) but often fails with vertical images. I have vertical pictures from at least four digital still cameras that are always interpreted as horizontal. I suspect that it is a metadata issue as opening these images in pretty much any graphics program (even Apple Preview or Windows Paint) and simply resaving with no changes, creates files that are interpreted correctly. The position is the same with vertical mobile phone videos (I know, hold the thing the other way round but many folk don&rsquo;t). There is no combination of rotation and size that will fix this in Frameflex. All I want is a vertical image, pillarboxed, that I could zoom into if needed. A 3D Warp can help but why do we need this? Semi-rant over. Images available for testing on request.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>RS.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>Effects from 2018.8 not recognized in 2018.12.3http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882129.aspxWed, 15 May 2019 15:44:05 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:882129Dalida1http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882129.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=882129<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Working in a Nexis environment, we have new Imac with Mojave so we have to install Media Composer 2018.12.3 but the effects that have been applied to a sequence in a 2018.8 (High Sierra) are not recognized if you open the same sequence in 12.3. all appear like Titles.</p>
<p>Any ideas? </p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>Dalid&aacute; Burgos</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>BUG: AAF export error with Win file paths... std::exceptionhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882293.aspxTue, 21 May 2019 09:15:49 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:882293TrevorA0http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882293.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=882293<p>https://www.dropbox.com/s/w86s8azd0qgr2q1/AAF%20ERROR.avb.zip?dl=0</p>
<p>Exporting the sequence in that bin as an AAF from a Mac (2018.12.3 or 2018.12.5) gives &#39;std::exception&#39; error. Sequence originated on PC running (I think) 2018.12.1. Exports fine from the PC.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I *think* the error is caused by the PC file path info.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>New Titler info ?http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882286.aspxTue, 21 May 2019 05:14:56 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:882286Jason Lyons (aka. avidzombie)0http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882286.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=882286<p>Hey can someone please direct me to where I might learn more about the item under the Tool Menu/AVID Titler+&nbsp;</p>
<p>I have searched the latest Media Composer Manual PDF, zero information. &nbsp;</p>
<p>Google searches reveal mostly old information about the Old Title tool or NewBlue Titler Pro for AVID. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Why would something named AVID Titler+ not show up anywhere but the Tool menu?</p>
<p>Ugh... there goes another 20 minutes I&#39;ll never get back :+</p>
<p>2018.12.3 on a Mac</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>LUTS not appearing in Source Color space listhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882215.aspxFri, 17 May 2019 16:59:29 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:882215cxi20011http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882215.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=882215<p>I&#39;ve imported some LUTs via Settings - Color Management and they&#39;re not showing up in the Source Settings list so i can apply them, specifically i need to use the Fuji F-Log for the XT3. I&#39;m on MC 8.3.1 - is this too old to deal with newer LUTs?</p>
<p>Color Management accepted them into it&#39;s list with no apparent problems. The Fuji Flog one&#39;s are CUBE files.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Any help as ever, appreciated !</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>Playback stuttershttp://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882193.aspxFri, 17 May 2019 01:43:37 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:882193marluc2http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882193.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=882193<p>I just installed MC Ultimate on my MacBook Pro running High Sierran 10.13.6. &nbsp;My problem is in playback. &nbsp;It stutters. &nbsp;Does anyone know a solution to this?</p>
<p>marluc</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>Same As Source Export Speed Confusionhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882208.aspxFri, 17 May 2019 13:24:53 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:882208derDoyle1http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882208.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=882208<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I noticed that the export speed of my almost daily Same As Source Exports highly increased.</p>
<p>Normally when I export Same As Source, a 90 minute filme needs about 15min.</p>
<p>Everything is DNxHD36, checked via Bin Display (Reference Clips and Sources).</p>
<p>I can&#39;t really say from which point on I noticed this.</p>
<p>We had MC8.7.2 in our edit suites, export times are from there. Now we have MC2018.9 and now it starts to get obvious.</p>
<p>Two days ago I had a 105min roughcut, export needed 2h!</p>
<p>Again, all DNxHD36, enough space on the drives, no fancy timeline.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Yesterday we did a test, we had a 90min film, one main video track, some snippets on V2, 18 audio tracks, mostly with dissolves.</p>
<p>Exporting Same As Source: 1h20min</p>
<p>We know, that in most cases Audio is the big deal. So we divided the sequence.</p>
<p>Exporting Same As Source Video only: 3:45min</p>
<p>Exporting Same As Source Audio only: 4:30min</p>
<p>Then we made an Audio Mixdwown at first: 4min - and the a Same As Source with video and the audio mixdown: 6min</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>And then again everything together, video and original audio: Export starts with 24min and goes up to over an hour.</p>
<p>Why!?</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>So I am much faster if I either make an audio mixdown before or I export audio and video seperatly and put it together in QT-Player or something else.</p>
<p>Where has Avid a problem?</p>
<p>Ideas on this?</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Doyle</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>Source Settings - Playback Frame Rates Defaulthttp://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882166.aspxThu, 16 May 2019 13:42:19 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:882166SeeFost4http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882166.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=882166<p>Hello!&nbsp;</p>
<p>Is anyone aware of a way to force the default Playback Frame Rate in the Playback Rates tab or Source settings to the Project&#39;s FPS rather than the Clip&#39;s FPS?</p>
<p>To be clear we are AMA linking stock footage at various rates and want to preserve the source framerate on transcode but still have it play back at 23.98 in the timeline. </p>
<p>A console command I&#39;m missing maybe?&nbsp;SetAMAQTForcedFrameRate does not seem to help.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Chris&nbsp;</p>
<p>
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</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>2018.12.5 on avid linkhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882180.aspxThu, 16 May 2019 17:25:30 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:882180natet10312http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882180.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=882180<p>When will 2018.12.5 be available on Avid Link?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>Which Codec for final editing and color correction?http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882154.aspxThu, 16 May 2019 01:44:04 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:882154persyst6http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882154.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=882154<p>I&#39;m wondering which clips would be the best to use for making my final video mixdowns of subsequences to be used in adding transitions and color corrections.</p>
<p>My original footage clips are<br />Resolution: 4K<br />Codec: ProRes 422HQ (10 bit)<br />Data rate: 754 Mbit/s = 94.25MB/s</p>
<p>I&#39;ve transcoded my clips to DNxHR LB (18.26 MB/s) for doing the bulk of my editing in subsequences, but I&#39;m now ready to swap my DNxHR LB clips with Highest Quality clips for exporting video mixdowns of the various subsequences for use in adding transitions and final color correction.</p>
<p>Should I relink my subsequences to the original ProRes clips for exporting video mixdowns, or should I just transcode the ProRes files into DNxHR 444 (177.67 MB/s) or DNxHR HQ (88.88MB/s) and relink the subsequences to the high quality DNxHR clips?</p>
<p>If relinking to the high quality DNxHR files is the way to go, should I be transcoding to DNxHR 444 since the data rate is 177.67 MB/s which is greater than the 94.25MB/s ProRes original clips?</p>
<p>Thanks!!</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>Source Settings - Playback Frame Rates Defaulthttp://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882165.aspxThu, 16 May 2019 13:42:19 GMT33dbc7b4-0359-4be4-a659-9f674152ccc7:882165SeeFost0http://c2.avid.com/forums/thread/882165.aspxhttp://c2.avid.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&PostID=882165<p>Hello!&nbsp;</p>
<p>Is anyone aware of a way to force the default Playback Frame Rate in the Playback Rates tab or Source settings to the Project&#39;s FPS rather than the Clip&#39;s FPS?</p>
<p>To be clear we are AMA linking stock footage at various rates and want to preserve the source framerate on transcode but still have it play back at 23.98 in the timeline. </p>
<p>A console command I&#39;m missing maybe?&nbsp;SetAMAQTForcedFrameRate does not seem to help.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Chris&nbsp;</p>
<p>
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